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President Glotzbach also acknowledged Linda Toohey, Chair of the Board of Trustees, who was in attendance.

President Glotzbach announced that his office will be sending out this year鈥檚 鈥淪trategic Action Agenda,鈥� which is an administrative document that outlines the actions that will be taken this year to implement the Strategic Plan.   The preface of this document explores the theme of community.  In thinking about community, President Glotzbach quoted St. Augustine who said about the notion of time: 鈥淚f no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.鈥� Community can also a tough concept to get one鈥檚 head around. President Glotzbach asked everyone to read this year鈥檚 鈥淪trategic Action Agenda鈥� and find opportunities for discussion.  There are a number of reasons, particularly from recent history, for us to think about what kind of a community we have here, what kind of community are we creating for our students, how we interact with one another, how we model the values that are at the core of what we are as a college 鈥� for each other and for Skidmore.

In addition, President Glotzbach stated that his office will be sending out another document from the Institutional Policy and Planning Committee addressing the upcoming strategic planning process that will be started this year.  This planning process will provide many opportunities for engagement and force us to think about where we are as a college today and where we want to be 10 years from now.  The strategic planning process is also a way of building community, and President Glotzbach expressed his hope that everyone will engage in these discussions as the time arises.

President Glotzbach also noted that the 快猫短视频will begin another 2-year process to prepare for our next Middle States Accreditation review (the last such review was 7 years ago).  The accreditation visit will take place in 2015-16. The principles underlying the accreditation process with Middle States are pretty simple and straightforward -- we should be able to show that we

• are clear about our mission,
• act in ways to fulfill it through planning, 
• have evidence showing that our students are learning what we say they should be learning,
• have sufficient resources to support our primary activities and can project that we will have those resources in the future; and 
• gather appropriate data about institutional issues and use it in making institutional decisions.

Thereafter, President Glotzbach opened the floor to allow an opportunity for questions.  One question was raised concerning whether there was a forum where faculty could raise and discuss issues without using the faculty email list.  After brief discussion, it was requested that any suggestions on this topic be forwarded to the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs鈥� office.   Another question was raised concerning a newspaper article about Skidmore鈥檚 plan for solar energy.  In response, Mike West, Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer, provided a brief update on that project, which is a plan to install an 8-acre solar array on Skidmore-owned property in the Town of Greenfield that will generate about 12 percent of the College鈥檚 electricity.  This project will be funded by a $2.3 million grant through NYSERDA.